{"title":"The production of geminates in Italian-dominant bilinguals and heritage speakers of Italian","authors":"Marieke Einfeldt, J. Weijer, T. Kupisch","doi":"10.1075/lia.18015.ein","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This study examines cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in adult Italian-German bilinguals based on the\n production of gemination, a phenomenon that exists in Italian but not in German. We analyzed the spontaneous Italian speech of two\n groups of Italian-German bilinguals (heritage speakers of Italian and Italian-dominant bilinguals) and a monolingual Italian\n control group. The results show that the geminates produced by the speakers in both bilingual groups were longer than their\n singletons. From this it seems that gemination is not affected by CLI. Based on our results, we discuss whether CLI is determined\n by (1) markedness, (2) frequency of Italian input during acquisition, (3) language dominance or (4) relevance (e.g. phonemic\n status), concluding that the latter is most crucial.","PeriodicalId":38778,"journal":{"name":"LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lia.18015.ein","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study examines cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in adult Italian-German bilinguals based on the
production of gemination, a phenomenon that exists in Italian but not in German. We analyzed the spontaneous Italian speech of two
groups of Italian-German bilinguals (heritage speakers of Italian and Italian-dominant bilinguals) and a monolingual Italian
control group. The results show that the geminates produced by the speakers in both bilingual groups were longer than their
singletons. From this it seems that gemination is not affected by CLI. Based on our results, we discuss whether CLI is determined
by (1) markedness, (2) frequency of Italian input during acquisition, (3) language dominance or (4) relevance (e.g. phonemic
status), concluding that the latter is most crucial.
期刊介绍：
LIA is a bilingual English-French journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research of high scientific quality at the forefront of current debates concerning language acquisition. It covers all facets of language acquisition among different types of learners and in diverse learning situations, with particular attention to oral speech and/or to signed languages. Topics include the acquisition of one or more foreign languages, of one or more first languages, and of sign languages, as well as learners’ use of gestures during speech; the relationship between language and cognition during acquisition; bilingualism and situations of linguistic contact – for example pidginisation and creolisation. The bilingual nature of LIA aims at reaching readership in a wide international community, while simultaneously continuing to attract intellectual and linguistic resources stemming from multiple scientific traditions in Europe, thereby remaining faithful to its original French anchoring. LIA is the direct descendant of the French-speaking journal AILE.
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